chop logic

chop logic

To argue in a tedious or pedantic way. I can't stand the way he chops logic! You can't have a conversation without him turning it into some tiresome fight! Don't get into it with Uncle Ned about politics because he'll chop logic and pick apart every little thing you say. OK, well, be that as it may, I think my argument still stands. Quit chopping logic on me.

See also: chop, logic

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chop logic

argue in a tiresomely pedantic way; quibble.

Chop is here used in the 16th-century sense meaning ‘bandy words’. This sense is now obsolete, and the sense of chop used in this phrase was later wrongly understood as ‘cut something into small pieces’.

See also: chop, logic

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