hairline vs milk-and-water

hairline

adj
  • very thin, as thin as a hair 

noun
  • A fishing line made from hair. 

  • The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. 

  • A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography. 

  • A very thin fissure. 

milk-and-water

adj
  • Insipid, wishy-washy, weak. 

noun
  • Something insipid or mawkish. 

How often have the words hairline and milk-and-water occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )