beat to a pulp vs take apart

beat to a pulp

verb
  • To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports. 

  • To beat up (a person) more than usually severely. 

take apart

verb
  • To soundly defeat someone, or a team. 

  • To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private. 

  • To dismantle something into its component pieces. 

  • to criticise someone 

How often have the words beat to a pulp and take apart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )