rub salt in the wound vs sadden

rub salt in the wound

verb
  • To make an injury, physical or emotional, feel worse. 

sadden

verb
  • To make sad or unhappy. 

  • To darken a color during dyeing. 

  • To become sad or unhappy. 

  • To render heavy or cohesive. 

How often have the words rub salt in the wound and sadden occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )