give someone a hard time vs snark

give someone a hard time

verb
  • To tease, kid or rib someone. 

  • To cause difficulty or make trouble for someone. 

snark

verb
  • To express oneself in a snarky fashion. 

noun
  • The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. 

  • A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. 

  • A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. 

  • Snide remarks or attitude. 

How often have the words give someone a hard time and snark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )