go to Halifax vs pound sand

go to Halifax

verb

  • Go to Hell. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, Halifax. 

pound sand

verb

  • To go away; get lost; go to hell. 

  • To engage in a futile activity. 

How often have the words go to Halifax and pound sand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )