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
It is the part that has the prestige undoubtedly, for it has the loquacity, it can challenge you for proofs, and chop logic, and put you down with words.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
He was, even as a child, he himself says, “quite a theologian, and would chop logic with his elders according to the fashion of that controversial time.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Livy makes his ancient Romans wrangle and chop logic with all the subtlety of a Hortensius or a Scævola.
From Miscellanies by Robert Ross
He was in no condition to chop logic, or to take heed of the existing forms of things.
From Books and Characters French and English by Giles Lytton Strachey
