chop logic

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Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Livy makes his ancient Romans wrangle and chop logic with all the subtlety of a Hortensius or a Scævola. 

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

He did not attack Lamachos, but war’s representative; not Cleon, but flattery of the populace; not Socrates, but the pernicious seed of sophistry, whereby youth was perverted to chop logic and worship whirligig.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Don’t try to chop logic here; go below and get something to eat, while I make up my mind what I shall do.”

From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.

“I say, don’t chop logic, Jolly, and don’t— I say, look here, Grip, steady! don’t pull a fellow’s arm off!” interpolated Gwyn, for the dog tugged heavily at the neckerchiefs.

From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hurst, Hal