haul someone over the coals vs pull someone over the coals

haul someone over the coals

verb

  • To express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong. 

pull someone over the coals

verb

  • Synonym of haul someone over the coals 

How often have the words haul someone over the coals and pull someone over the coals occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )