fighting vs tug of war

fighting

noun
  • The act or process of contending; violence or conflict. 

  • A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight 

adj
  • Engaged in war or other conflict. 

  • Apt to provoke a fight. 

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