put lipstick on a pig vs sweeten the pot

put lipstick on a pig

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

sweeten the pot

verb
  • To make something more desirable. 

  • To increase a wager. 

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