ball of fire vs operant

ball of fire

noun
  • A person who is especially hard-working, high-achieving, ambitious, or active. 

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

How often have the words ball of fire and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )