gruff vs short and sweet

gruff

adj
  • Of goods: bulky. 

  • hoarse-voiced. 

  • having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. 

verb
  • To speak gruffly. 

short and sweet

adj
  • Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged. 

How often have the words gruff and short and sweet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )