amiss vs second string

amiss

adj
  • Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect. 

adv
  • Astray. 

  • Imperfectly. 

second string

adj
  • Not as good; of a lower quality or condition. 

noun
  • A unit of players which is considered to have a secondary level of talent and which usually plays after the first string. 

How often have the words amiss and second string occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )