banana skin vs pitfall

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. 

pitfall

noun
  • A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious. 

  • A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from. 

  • An antipattern. 

  • Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop. 

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