hopeless vs not worth a Continental

hopeless

adj
  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. 

  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. 

  • Without talent, not skilled. 

  • Incurable. 

not worth a Continental

adj
  • worthless, lacking in value, especially due to economic inflation. 

How often have the words hopeless and not worth a Continental occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )