cold as ice vs scorching

cold as ice

adj

  • Very cold. 

scorching

noun

  • The act or result of something being scorched. 

adj

  • very high. 

  • Very hot. 

  • Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. 

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