static vs tug of war

static

noun
  • Verbal abuse. 

  • Static electricity. 

  • Interference or obstruction from people. 

  • A static caravan. 

  • A static variable. 

  • Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television. 

adj
  • Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion. 

  • Computed, created, or allocated before the program starts running, as opposed to at runtime. 

  • Defined for the class itself, as opposed to instances of it; thus shared between all instances and accessible even without an instance. 

  • Unchanging; that cannot or does not change. 

  • Making no progress; stalled, without movement or advancement. 

tug of war

noun
  • A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute. 

  • A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams. 

How often have the words static and tug of war occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )