bad news vs hard luck

bad news

noun
  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

hard luck

noun
  • Bad luck. 

intj
  • Expressed to someone suffering misfortune. 

How often have the words bad news and hard luck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )