accommodation ladder vs thoroughfare

accommodation ladder

noun
  • a flight of stairs or a ladder for lowering over the side of a ship for access to and from a small boat. 

  • The property ladder, without the implication of necessarily owning the place where one lives. 

thoroughfare

noun
  • An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships. 

  • A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street. 

  • The act of going through; passage; travel, transit. 

  • A passage; a way through. 

How often have the words accommodation ladder and thoroughfare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )