one brick short of a full load vs tomfool

one brick short of a full load

adj

  • Stupid. 

  • Not mentally sound; insane. 

tomfool

adj

  • silly or stupid. 

verb

  • To act foolishly. 

noun

  • Any of various tyrant flycatchers viewed as foolishly confiding. 

  • a silly or stupid person, especially a boy or man. 

How often have the words one brick short of a full load and tomfool occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )