[H]e had been in high favour with Balfour, although the rank and file had never cottoned to his dandified and over-polished parliamentary manners, which led one Tory member to mutter in my hearing, after one of Wyndham's Burke-conscious perorations, "Damn that fellow; he pirouettes like a dancing master."

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[H]e had been in high favour with Balfour, although the rank and file had never cottoned to his dandified and over-polished parliamentary manners, which led one Tory member to mutter in my hearing, after one of Wyndham's Burke-conscious perorations, "Damn that fellow; he pirouettes like a dancing master."" in the context of "Viscount Lee of Fareham, ‘A Good Innings’: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham P.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., ed. Alan Clark (1974), p. 128" to mean that wisdom is timeless.