middle finger vs thumbsbreadth

middle finger

noun
  • The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger 

  • An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand. 

  • An insult directed at someone. 

thumbsbreadth

noun
  • The width of a thumb, as a unit of measure. 

How often have the words middle finger and thumbsbreadth occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )