poor as a rat vs stingy

poor as a rat

adj
  • Synonym of poor as a church mouse 

stingy

adj
  • Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean 

  • Small, scant, meager, insufficient 

  • Stinging; able or inclined to sting. 

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