lame duck vs palooka

lame duck

noun
  • A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled. 

  • An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office. 

palooka

noun
  • Someone incompetent or untalented. 

  • A stupid, oafish or clumsy person. 

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