heavy-handed vs saline

heavy-handed

adj
  • Do not be too heavy-handed with the salt. 

  • Overbearing, coercive; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive. 

  • Clumsy, awkward. 

  • Excessive, overdone. 

  • Lacking subtlety or nuance. 

saline

adj
  • Containing salt; salty. 

  • Resembling salt. 

noun
  • A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. 

  • Water containing dissolved salt. 

How often have the words heavy-handed and saline occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )