dead-nuts vs on the nose

dead-nuts

adv

  • Precisely, exactly, completely. 

adj

  • Precise, exact, completely accurate. 

on the nose

prep

  • Exact; precise; appropriate. 

  • Unimaginative; over-literal; lacking nuance. 

  • Smelly, malodorous. 

  • To finish first. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, nose. 

How often have the words dead-nuts and on the nose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )