cold as ice vs nippy

cold as ice

adj
  • Very cold. 

nippy

adj
  • Of the weather, rather cold. 

  • fast; speedy 

  • Inclined to nip; bitey. 

  • sharp in taste 

  • curt 

  • annoying; irritating 

  • parsimonious 

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