bear the brunt vs take it

bear the brunt

verb
  • To endure the worst part of something. 

take it

verb
  • to reluctantly accept or believe; to acquiesce 

  • to suppose 

  • to start doing 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, it. 

How often have the words bear the brunt and take it occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )