come up short vs take the count

come up short

verb
  • Synonym of fall short 

take the count

verb
  • To lose or fail. 

  • To be knocked out. 

  • To take to opportunity to rest briefly after being knocked down but before being counted out by the referee. 

How often have the words come up short and take the count occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )