quiet as a mouse vs tongueless

quiet as a mouse

adj
  • Very quiet, so as to not be heard 

tongueless

adj
  • Lacking speech; mute. 

  • Having no tongue. 

  • Making no sound; silent, speechless. 

  • Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken. 

How often have the words quiet as a mouse and tongueless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )