drink like a fish vs tipple

drink like a fish

verb
  • To drink (especially alcohol) heavily and in excess. 

tipple

verb
  • To drink too much alcohol. 

  • To sell alcoholic liquor by retail. 

  • To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess. 

  • To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it. 

  • To fall over; to topple. 

noun
  • Any alcoholic drink. 

  • An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done. 

  • An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal. 

How often have the words drink like a fish and tipple occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )