like a cat on a hot tin roof vs uptight

like a cat on a hot tin roof

prep
  • Jumpy, nervous. 

uptight

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

  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

noun
  • An uptight person. 

How often have the words like a cat on a hot tin roof and uptight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )