lengthy vs short and sweet

lengthy

adj
  • Speaking or writing at length; long-winded. 

  • Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension. 

  • a lengthy text 

short and sweet

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

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