bend the rules vs digress

bend the rules

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

digress

verb
  • To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. 

  • To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. 

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