bend one’s ear vs put to sleep

bend one’s ear

put to sleep

verb
  • To help (someone) to bed; put to bed. 

  • To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize. 

  • To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery. 

  • To cause (someone) to sleep. 

  • To render dormant. 

How often have the words bend one’s ear and put to sleep occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )