brush aside vs close one's eyes

brush aside

verb
  • To disregard, dismiss or ignore something, as unimportant. 

  • To defeat with ease. 

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

How often have the words brush aside and close one's eyes occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )