cramp one’s style vs dead-end

cramp one’s style

dead-end

adj

  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

noun

  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

verb

  • To come to a dead-end. 

How often have the words cramp one’s style and dead-end occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )