cast a slur on vs take apart

cast a slur on

take apart

verb
  • To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private. 

  • To dismantle something into its component pieces. 

  • To soundly defeat someone, or a team. 

  • to criticise someone 

How often have the words cast a slur on and take apart occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )