not worth a whistle vs paltry

not worth a whistle

adj
  • Worthless or pointless. 

paltry

adj
  • Trashy, trivial, of little value. 

  • Of little monetary worth. 

  • Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. 

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