mad as a bear with a sore head vs red-faced

mad as a bear with a sore head

adj

  • Very angry. 

red-faced

adj

  • angry 

  • flustered 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face. 

  • inebriate 

  • exhausted 

  • embarrassed 

How often have the words mad as a bear with a sore head and red-faced occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )