aphonic vs dumb as a post

aphonic

adj
  • Of, relating to, or exhibiting aphonia; unable to speak. 

noun
  • A person who has aphonia. 

dumb as a post

adj
  • Utterly mute; lacking the ability to speak. 

  • Extremely stupid. 

How often have the words aphonic and dumb as a post occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )