boring as beans vs poky

boring as beans

adj

  • Very boring; devoid of interest. 

poky

adj

  • Stupid; mentally dull. 

  • Slow. 

  • Small and cramped, and often shabby. 

noun

  • Jail. 

  • A gambling device based on the card game poker. 

How often have the words boring as beans and poky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )