cold as balls vs wintry

cold as balls

adj
  • Very cold. 

wintry

adj
  • Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. 

  • Containing sleet or snow. 

  • Aged, white-haired. 

  • Chilling, cheerless. 

  • a wintry remark 

How often have the words cold as balls and wintry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )