fly on the wall vs stickybeak

fly on the wall

noun
  • A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness. 

stickybeak

noun
  • An act of looking at or watching something, especially something which does not directly concern the one looking. 

  • An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker. 

verb
  • To pry or snoop. 

How often have the words fly on the wall and stickybeak occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )