penny-wise vs sparing

penny-wise

adj
  • Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money. 

sparing

adj
  • Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal. 

noun
  • The act by which something or someone is spared. 

How often have the words penny-wise and sparing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )