dampener vs turd in the punchbowl

dampener

noun
  • A discouraging event or remark. 

  • A device that moistens or dampens something. 

turd in the punchbowl

noun
  • Something that ruins or spoils everything else; a nuisance or problem; an unpleasant or disagreeable detail. 

How often have the words dampener and turd in the punchbowl occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )