close one's eyes vs lay aside

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

lay aside

verb
  • To put (something) out of consideration. 

  • To reserve (something, especially money) for future use; to save as a backup. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and lay aside occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )