Brewer's: Chop Logic

(To). To bandy words; to altercate. Lord Bacon says, “Let not the council chop with the judge.” (See Chop And Change .)

“How now, how now, chop logic! What is this? `Proud,' and `I thank you,' and `I thank you not,' And yet `not proud.' ”

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5.

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