damn the torpedoes vs shoot from the hip

damn the torpedoes

verb
  • Used to dismiss the risks of a dangerous action. 

shoot from the hip

verb
  • To discharge a firearm while it is held near the hip, without taking time to aim via the gunsights. 

  • To speak or act quickly based on first impressions, without carefully studying the background information, wider context, etc. 

How often have the words damn the torpedoes and shoot from the hip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )