burn up vs put to the torch

burn up

verb
  • To catch fire and burn until destroyed. 

  • To feel overly hot or inflamed. 

  • To anger; to annoy. 

  • To destroy by burning. 

  • To experience a high fever. 

put to the torch

verb
  • To set on fire. 

How often have the words burn up and put to the torch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )