oddball vs tough case

oddball

noun
  • An eccentric or unusual person. 

  • A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant. 

adj
  • Exotic, not mainstream. 

tough case

noun
  • A person who is difficult to work with. 

How often have the words oddball and tough case occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )