bite the big one vs take a dive

bite the big one

verb
  • To perform poorly; to fail. 

  • To be unpleasant or undesirable. 

  • To die. 

  • To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing. 

take a dive

verb
  • To lose or fail intentionally. 

  • To decline rapidly. 

  • To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. 

How often have the words bite the big one and take a dive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )