caught short vs so-so

caught short

adj
  • Needing to use the toilet at a point where no toilet facilities are available. 

so-so

adv
  • Neither very well nor very poorly. 

adj
  • Neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent. 

How often have the words caught short and so-so occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )