The privilege process: How doctors get privileges at hospitals. Patients, naturally, want good, qualified doctors. But so do hospitals. That means that simply being a licensed physician does not guarantee doctors will be granted hospital privileges, area hospital executives say.
Stirring is a more gentle technique for mixing cocktails and is used to delicately combine the drinks with a perfect amount of dilution from the ice. Many gin and whiskey cocktails are stirred because shaking is said to bruise the spirit (though that is also up for debate).
The modern use of the phrase always exists as part of the extended and fixed phrase âmore ... than you can shake a stick atâ, meaning an abundance, plenty. The phrase without the âmore thanâ element is rather older, but not by much. Shaking a stick at somebody, of course, is a threatening gesture, or at least one of defiance. So to say that you have shaken a stick at somebody is to suggest that person is an opponent, perhaps a worthy one.