jumbo vs larger than life

jumbo

adj
  • Especially large or powerful. 

noun
  • An elephant. 

  • An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing. 

  • A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock. 

larger than life

adj
  • Usually of a person: very imposing, renowned, or impressively influential. 

  • Of greater size or magnitude than is naturally or normally the case. 

How often have the words jumbo and larger than life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )