high road vs trunk line

high road

noun
  • A main road or highway. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, road. 

  • A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable. 

trunk line

noun
  • A main telephone line. 

  • A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network. 

  • The main line of a canal, from which other sections diverge. 

How often have the words high road and trunk line occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )