bent as a nine-bob note vs phony as a three-dollar bill

bent as a nine-bob note

adj

  • Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded. 

  • Ostentatiously homosexual. 

phony as a three-dollar bill

adj

  • Extremely phony; fake; dishonest; completely bogus. 

How often have the words bent as a nine-bob note and phony as a three-dollar bill occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )