dumb vs not worth a whistle

dumb

adj
  • Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value. 

  • Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour. 

  • Extremely stupid. 

verb
  • To make stupid. 

  • To represent as stupid. 

  • To reduce the intellectual demands of. 

not worth a whistle

adj
  • Worthless or pointless. 

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