grilled vs hotter than a pistol

grilled

adj

  • As if cooked on a grill. 

  • Fitted with a grille. 

  • Cooked on a grill. 

hotter than a pistol

adj

  • Very hot. 

  • Exceptionally popular, productive, or marketable. 

How often have the words grilled and hotter than a pistol occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )