barmy vs daft as a brush

barmy

adj
  • Odd, strange, or crazy. 

  • Containing barm, i.e. froth from fermented yeast. 

daft as a brush

adj
  • Tending to do or say silly things. 

How often have the words barmy and daft as a brush occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )