act the goat vs act up

act the goat

verb
  • To play around in a silly manner. 

act up

verb
  • To misbehave; to cause trouble. 

  • To perform the duties of an appointment senior to that actually held; to deputise for a superior. 

How often have the words act the goat and act up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )