go round vs wry

go round

verb
  • To physically swirl or rotate. 

  • To rotate, to move in a circle. 

  • To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone. 

  • To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone. 

  • To go around the side of sth., to bypass something. 

  • To go to another person's home or a public event. 

  • To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly). 

  • To evade sth. 

  • To pass around, to circulate sth. 

  • To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification) 

wry

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

adj
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

How often have the words go round and wry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )