of the old school vs uptight

of the old school

uptight

noun

  • An uptight person. 

adj

  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

How often have the words of the old school and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )