bleat vs cry the blues

bleat

verb
  • Of a person, to complain. 

  • Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. 

noun
  • The characteristic cry of a sheep or a goat. 

cry the blues

verb
  • To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation. 

  • To sing in the style of blues music. 

How often have the words bleat and cry the blues occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )