close as wax vs tight as a tick

close as wax

adj
  • miserly, tight, or secretive 

tight as a tick

adj
  • Drunk, inebriated. 

  • Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting. 

  • Unwilling to spend money. 

How often have the words close as wax and tight as a tick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )