cake walk vs thrashing

cake walk

noun
  • A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century. 

  • From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake. 

  • Something extremely easy. 

thrashing

noun
  • Slam dancing. 

  • A heavy defeat. 

  • Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc) 

  • Action of the verb to thrash. 

  • Excessive paging within virtual storage. 

  • A beating, especially a severe one. 

How often have the words cake walk and thrashing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )