canny vs light-handed

canny

adj
  • Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny. 

  • Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can. 

  • Frugal, thrifty. 

  • Gentle, quiet, steady. 

  • Careful, prudent, cautious. 

  • Knowing, shrewd, astute. 

adv
  • Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. 

  • Very, considerably; quite, rather. 

light-handed

adj
  • Light-hearted; fun and witty or easygoing. 

  • flippant; lacking seriousness. 

  • Thieving, larcenous. 

  • Fresh and light-tasting, not rich, heavy, or highly seasoned. 

  • Gentle; benign and with minimal intervention. 

  • Sparing; applying only slight pressure or minimal amounts. 

  • Delicate and skilled; nimble and dextrous 

  • Not having a full complement of workers. 

adv
  • Carrying very little. 

  • In a light-handed manner. 

How often have the words canny and light-handed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )