piss up a rope vs pound sand

piss up a rope

verb
  • To engage in futile or impossible activity. 

  • Used as an abrupt dismissal. 

pound sand

verb
  • To engage in a futile activity. 

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

How often have the words piss up a rope and pound sand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )