pride and joy vs swank

pride and joy

noun

  • A possession that is very highly valued. 

swank

noun

  • A fashionably elegant person. 

  • Ostentation; bravado. 

verb

  • To swagger, to show off. 

adj

  • Fashionably elegant, posh. 

How often have the words pride and joy and swank occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )