difference vs tug of war

difference

noun
  • A disagreement or argument. 

  • The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. 

  • An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency. 

  • A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. 

  • The quality of being different. 

  • The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. 

  • The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B). 

  • Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. 

  • A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB). 

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 difference and tug of war occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )