brush off vs ignore

brush off

verb
  • To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, off. To remove something with a brush. 

ignore

verb
  • To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. 

  • To pretend to not notice someone or something. 

How often have the words brush off and ignore occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )