overwork vs work like a horse

overwork

verb
  • To work too hard. 

  • To make (someone or something) work too hard. 

  • To decorate all over. 

  • To fill too full of work; to crowd with labour. 

noun
  • excessive work 

  • a superstructure 

work like a horse

verb
  • To work very hard; to toil. 

How often have the words overwork and work like a horse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )