put lipstick on a pig vs sugarcoat

put lipstick on a pig

verb
  • To superficially alter something in the hope of making it seem more appealing than it is in actuality. 

sugarcoat

verb
  • To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to. 

  • To coat with sugar. 

How often have the words put lipstick on a pig and sugarcoat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )