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
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
“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 Hal Hurst
True, Pamela, said he; you chop logic very prettily.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
I must indeed have been exhausted to chop logic with a water-witch.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
