hold one’s ground vs uptight

hold one’s ground

uptight

noun
  • An uptight person. 

adj
  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

How often have the words hold one’s ground and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )