hard up vs not worth a brass farthing

hard up

adj

  • Lacking anything. 

  • Desperate. 

  • Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties. 

not worth a brass farthing

adj

  • Worth nothing or next to nothing. 

How often have the words hard up and not worth a brass farthing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )