clear as mud vs hieroglyphic

clear as mud

adj
  • Unclear; difficult or impossible to understand or interpret. 

hieroglyphic

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

How often have the words clear as mud and hieroglyphic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )