bawling-out vs slap on the wrist

bawling-out

slap on the wrist

noun
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist. 

  • An overly mild punishment; a reprimand. 

verb
  • To punish in an overly mild and largely symbolic manner. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist. 

How often have the words bawling-out and slap on the wrist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )