blood and guts vs wasting

blood and guts

noun

  • gore; gruesome images. 

wasting

noun

  • The act by which something is laid waste; destruction. 

  • Gradual deterioration or wasting away. 

adj

  • Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass. 

How often have the words blood and guts and wasting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )