churlish vs poor as a rat

churlish

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic. 

  • Stingy or grudging. 

  • Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable. 

  • Rude, surly, ungracious. 

poor as a rat

adj
  • Synonym of poor as a church mouse 

How often have the words churlish and poor as a rat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )