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

She did not chop logic with him, but instead retorted in a more primitive fashion by beginning to scream at the top of her voice.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch

These men, as we have stated, could swing the axe, or chop logic, at a moment's notice; could pull vegetables, or dig out Hebrew roots, with alternate ease.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

Not for worlds, sir, would I owe to authority what love cannot freely grant—" "Don't chop logic, Denzil.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)