in rags vs in tatters

in rags

prep
  • Very poor or lowly. 

  • Dressed in very old, torn clothes. 

in tatters

phrase
  • Badly torn in many places; in shreds. 

  • Ruined, destroyed, wrecked. 

How often have the words in rags and in tatters occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )