bad news vs fun sponge

bad news

noun
  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

fun sponge

noun
  • Someone who or something that takes the fun out of life; a killjoy. 

How often have the words bad news and fun sponge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )