desert vs pitch and toss

desert

noun
  • That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward. 

  • A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. 

  • Any barren place or situation. 

adj
  • Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited. 

verb
  • To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. 

  • To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission. 

pitch and toss

noun
  • Careless treatment of something, or trusting to luck about it. 

  • A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost. 

  • A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails. 

How often have the words desert and pitch and toss occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )