cross one's fingers vs request

cross one's fingers

verb
  • when wishing for luck, or 

  • when telling a lie (and attempting to escape the moral and other consequence of that lie). 

  • To put the middle finger across the index finger, especially 

request

verb
  • To ask for (something). 

  • To ask (somebody) to do something. 

noun
  • A message sent over a network to a server. 

  • Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence). 

  • Condition of being sought after. 

  • A formal message requesting something. 

How often have the words cross one's fingers and request occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )