rough-and-tumble vs thrashing

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

thrashing

noun
  • A beating, especially a severe one. 

  • A heavy defeat. 

  • Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc) 

  • Action of the verb to thrash. 

  • Excessive paging within virtual storage. 

  • Slam dancing. 

How often have the words rough-and-tumble and thrashing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )