cross one's fingers vs seek

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 

seek

verb
  • To attempt, endeavour, try 

  • To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. 

  • To try to find; to look for; to search for. 

  • To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. 

  • To navigate through a stream. 

  • To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. 

noun
  • The operation of navigating through a stream. 

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