do-or-die vs forlorn

do-or-die

adj

  • Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure. 

forlorn

adj

  • Unlikely to succeed; hopeless. 

  • Abandoned, deserted, left behind. 

  • Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. 

noun

  • A forlorn hope. 

  • A member of a forlorn hope. 

How often have the words do-or-die and forlorn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )