bad news vs headache

bad news

noun
  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

headache

noun
  • A nuisance or unpleasant problem. 

  • A pain or ache in the head. 

How often have the words bad news and headache occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )