chit-chat vs whistle Dixie

chit-chat

verb
  • To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters. 

noun
  • Gossip. 

  • Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters. 

whistle Dixie

verb
  • To engage in idle conversational fantasies. 

How often have the words chit-chat and whistle Dixie occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )