applicative vs on the nose

applicative

noun
  • A grammatical construct that casts a peripheral noun phrase as direct object. 

adj
  • Involving the application of an operator on an operand. 

  • Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result. 

  • Having practical application; applicable. 

on the nose

prep
  • Exact; precise; appropriate. 

  • Unimaginative; over-literal; lacking nuance. 

  • Smelly, malodorous. 

  • To finish first. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, nose. 

How often have the words applicative and on the nose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )