lifeless vs not worth a Continental

lifeless

adj
  • dull or lacking vitality 

  • inanimate; having no life 

  • dead; having lost life 

  • uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 

not worth a Continental

adj
  • worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation. 

How often have the words lifeless and not worth a Continental occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )