ride herd on vs wrangle

ride herd on

verb
  • To supervise a group of people and their work. 

  • As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles. 

wrangle

verb
  • To manage or supervise (people). 

  • To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker. 

  • Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining. 

  • To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling. 

  • To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university. 

  • To make harsh noises as if quarrelling. 

  • To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending. 

  • To herd (horses or other livestock). 

noun
  • Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling. 

  • An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation. 

How often have the words ride herd on and wrangle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )