modesty vs upper hand

modesty

noun
  • Moderate behaviour; reserve. 

  • Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness. 

  • The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities. 

upper hand

noun
  • Advantage or control. 

How often have the words modesty and upper hand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )