hot air vs nitty-gritty

hot air

noun
  • Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon. 

  • Empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster. 

nitty-gritty

noun
  • The core or essence of something; the gist. 

How often have the words hot air and nitty-gritty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )