shake hands and kiss babies vs whistle-stop

shake hands and kiss babies

whistle-stop

adj
  • Extremely brief and hurried. 

verb
  • To make a brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering. 

noun
  • A small train station. 

  • A brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering. 

How often have the words shake hands and kiss babies and whistle-stop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )