drive a hard bargain vs meet halfway

drive a hard bargain

verb
  • To negotiate forcefully. 

meet halfway

verb
  • To compromise with or to accommodate. 

  • To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation. 

  • To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions. 

How often have the words drive a hard bargain and meet halfway occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )