come to grips vs confront

come to grips

verb
  • To confront each other decisively. 

  • To attempt to face or resolve an internal contradiction or difficulty. 

confront

verb
  • To engage in confrontation. 

  • To set a thing side by side with; to compare. 

  • To deal with. 

  • To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to. 

  • To come up against; to encounter. 

  • To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with 

  • To bring someone face to face with something. 

How often have the words come to grips and confront occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )