milk-and-water vs trite

milk-and-water

adj
  • Insipid, wishy-washy, weak. 

noun
  • Something insipid or mawkish. 

trite

adj
  • Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed. 

  • So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law. 

noun
  • A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 

  • Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae. 

How often have the words milk-and-water and trite occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )