bend the rules vs depart

bend the rules

verb
  • To do something that is not normally allowed but is also not explicitly prohibited. 

depart

verb
  • To leave. 

  • To die. 

  • To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist. 

  • To go away from; to leave. 

  • To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform. 

  • To set out on a journey. 

How often have the words bend the rules and depart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )