come to an end vs take a rain check

come to an end

verb
  • To stop; to cease; to no longer continue. 

take a rain check

verb
  • To request or accept a rain check (an agreement from a merchant to honor a special offer, temporarily unavailable, after the expiration date). 

  • In social interactions, to request a deferral of an invitation. To "take a rain check" is a polite way to turn down an engagement, usually with the implication that one is simply postponing it and another time might be acceptable. 

How often have the words come to an end and take a rain check occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )