competitive vs costing the earth

competitive

adj
  • Cheap, especially used of quality products. 

  • Capable of competing successfully. 

  • Inclined to compete. 

  • Of or pertaining to competition. 

  • Inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it. 

costing the earth

How often have the words competitive and costing the earth occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )