highly strung vs uptight

highly strung

uptight

noun
  • An uptight person. 

adj
  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

How often have the words highly strung and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )