penny-pinching vs tight-fisted

penny-pinching

adj

  • reluctant to spend money; close-fisted 

noun

  • Instance of extreme economy. 

  • reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony 

tight-fisted

adj

  • reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy 

How often have the words penny-pinching and tight-fisted occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )