Hysteron Proteron
A figure of speech in which things are named in the reverse of their normal order.
Example
Examples: So he came, cart and horse. Night and day---Cole Porter. We never wondered how he garnered his butter and bread.
[n] the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
[n] reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')
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anastrophe, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, arsy-varsiness, bad case, begging the question, chiasmus, circular argument, claptrap, clutter, crowd-pleasing argument, empty words, fallacy