middle-of-the-road vs middlebrow

middle-of-the-road

middlebrow

adj
  • Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. 

noun
  • A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between. 

How often have the words middle-of-the-road and middlebrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )