do-or-die vs nugatory

do-or-die

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

nugatory

adj
  • Ineffective, invalid or futile. 

  • Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual. 

  • Trivial, trifling or of little importance. 

  • Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained. 

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