buck up vs dawdle

buck up

verb
  • To pass on to higher authority for resolution. See also pass the buck. 

  • To encourage; to hearten. 

  • To become encouraged, reinvigorated, or cheerful; to summon one's courage or spirits; to pluck up courage. 

intj
  • Cheer up; take courage; take heart. 

dawdle

verb
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time. 

  • To move or walk lackadaisically. 

  • Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. 

noun
  • An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling. 

  • Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”) 

  • An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey. 

How often have the words buck up and dawdle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )