talk the hind leg off a donkey vs tattle

talk the hind leg off a donkey

verb
  • To talk a lot. 

tattle

verb
  • To chatter; to gossip. 

  • Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. 

noun
  • A tattletale. 

  • Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person. 

  • Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip. 

How often have the words talk the hind leg off a donkey and tattle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )