gild the lily vs over-egg the pudding

gild the lily

verb
  • To embellish or improve something unnecessarily. 

  • To add superfluous attributes to something. 

over-egg the pudding

verb
  • To embellish too much, to exaggerate. 

How often have the words gild the lily and over-egg the pudding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )