cooking with gas vs precise

cooking with gas

phrase
  • Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial. 

  • With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas. 

precise

verb
  • To make or render precise; to specify. 

adj
  • consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value) 

  • adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious 

  • exact, accurate 

How often have the words cooking with gas and precise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )