beagle vs stool pigeon

beagle

noun
  • A person who snoops on others; a detective. 

  • A bailiff. 

  • A small kind of shark. 

  • A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet. 

verb
  • To search. 

  • To hunt with beagles. 

stool pigeon

noun
  • An informer to the authorities, especially one who gives up criminal associates. 

  • A pigeon tied to a stool by a piece of twine, used as a decoy to entice free-flying birds to the ground to be shot or trapped. 

How often have the words beagle and stool pigeon occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )