drunk as a fiddler vs tight as a tick

drunk as a fiddler

adj

  • Thoroughly drunk. 

tight as a tick

adj

  • Drunk, inebriated. 

  • Fully inflated; swollen near to bursting. 

  • Unwilling to spend money. 

How often have the words drunk as a fiddler and tight as a tick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )