clock patience vs hourglass

clock patience

noun
  • Synonym of clock (“card game”) 

hourglass

noun
  • A clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows. 

  • A cursor, often shaped like an hourglass, indicating that the computer is busy. 

How often have the words clock patience and hourglass occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )