guarded vs with eyes peeled

guarded

adj
  • Cautious; restrained. 

  • Watched over; supervised. 

  • When the practitioner formulating the opinion does not have enough information to know, or to foretell, what the outcome may be. 

with eyes peeled

How often have the words guarded and with eyes peeled occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )