cut ice vs surmise

cut ice

verb
  • To have influence (on something, especially someone's opinion); to be accepted or tolerated (by). 

surmise

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

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