aloof vs sticking to one’s guns

aloof

adj
  • Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish. 

adv
  • At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. 

  • Without sympathy; unfavorably. 

sticking to one’s guns

How often have the words aloof and sticking to one’s guns occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )