eye-watering vs thunderstriking

eye-watering

adj
  • Of a shocking or surprising nature. 

  • So expensive that (figuratively) it would make one's eyes water. 

  • Having an odour, vapours or smoke which causes irritation to the eyes. 

  • Having an extremely bad odour. 

thunderstriking

adj
  • Causing great amazement or shock. 

How often have the words eye-watering and thunderstriking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )