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

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

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

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

Confound it, Morris," exclaimed the Colonel, losing patience; "don't chop logic like a petty sessions lawyer.

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider