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

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 De la Mare, Walter

“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

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

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

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)