breaking vs flying in the face of

breaking

noun
  • A change of a vowel to a diphthong. 

  • The act by which something is broken. 

  • A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones. 

  • Breakdancing. 

flying in the face of

How often have the words breaking and flying in the face of occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )