carry on vs wait

carry on

verb
  • To continue, maintain or pursue (:an activity or enterprise) 

  • To act or behave; especially to misbehave so as to attract attention. 

  • To continue or proceed as before. 

  • To talk continuously about, often in an excessively excited way 

  • To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship. 

  • To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it. 

wait

verb
  • To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. 

  • To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence. 

  • To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. 

noun
  • A delay. 

  • An ambush. 

  • Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. 

intj
  • Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment. 

How often have the words carry on and wait occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )