eager beaver vs workhorse

eager beaver

noun
  • One (especially a child) who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task; a person who is exceedingly assiduous in an enthusiastic manner 

workhorse

noun
  • Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly. 

  • A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse. 

How often have the words eager beaver and workhorse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )