no-hoper vs small beer

no-hoper

noun
  • Someone or something that has no hope of success. 

small beer

noun
  • Something that is of relatively little importance. 

  • Beer with a low alcoholic content, usually between 0.5% and 2.8%. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, beer. 

How often have the words no-hoper and small beer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )