silver-sheet

Noun

silver sheet (plural silver sheets)

1. A thin sheet of silver, e.g. used in metalworking or jewellery.

   Synonyms:

   silver screen, big screen

2. (colloquial, dated) A cinema screen onto which movies are projected.
   • Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, producers of Paramount Pictures today, has its product displayed upon the silver sheet in every country where there is a projection machine.1920, Charles Donald Fox, Milton L. Silver, editors, Who's Who on the Screen, page 2
3. (dated, idiomatic) By extension, movies, the film industry, or that which is related to movies or cinema (often preceded with "the")
   • After years in local theatre productions, he made his debut on the silver sheet and became known around the world.