pound sand vs pull teeth

pound sand

verb
  • To engage in a futile activity. 

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

pull teeth

verb
  • To do something that is especially difficult or effortful. 

  • To remove teeth, usually because they are diseased or damaged. 

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