hard up vs poverty-ridden

hard up

adj
  • Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties. 

  • Desperate. 

  • Lacking anything. 

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

How often have the words hard up and poverty-ridden occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )