drag through the mud vs grime

drag through the mud

verb
  • To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable. 

grime

verb
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt. 

noun
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. 

  • A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. 

How often have the words drag through the mud and grime occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )