A mysterious Physical Therapy/Bodywork technique.
This term is used in a condescending way to refer to trade
secrets that you will
never learn, even if you spend large
amounts of
money and take all the continuing education
classes.
The final flick, brush,
glaze, goodbye, given to a student or
perhaps a disdained client at the end of a session. There is
apparent relish given to the ambiguity of this term as it
could be interpreted to
literally refer to a bona-fide
cryo-therapy technique, or equally construed in a sexual
way. A "coup
de gras" of sorts.
Not revealing your sources of information. Icing refers to
tightly held Copyright, Corporate and/or Trade Secrets -
that the instructor actually cannot legally copyright!
"I can teach you all there is to know, about baking a cake,
but I will not reveal my icing recipe."
The Professor was kind to all of his students, but
never
shared the secret to his "icing" technique; not
even with
his
long term research assistant.