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 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
When the scorpion's sting is probing to the quick, shall we stop to chop logic?
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Turner, Frederick Jackson
Confound it, Morris," exclaimed the Colonel, losing patience; "don't chop logic like a petty sessions lawyer.
From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider
Which means he construes Greek and Latin, works Problems in mathematics, can chop logic, And is a conjurer in philosophy, Both natural and moral.—Pshaw! a man Whom nobody, that is anybody, knows!
From The Hunchback by Morley, Henry
