banana skin vs faux pas

banana skin

noun
  • A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment. 

  • The outer skin of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on. 

faux pas

noun
  • An embarrassing or tactless blunder. 

How often have the words banana skin and faux pas occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )