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

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

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

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)