dare vs flatfoot

dare

verb
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

flatfoot

verb
  • To perform an action inefficiently or awkwardly. 

  • To wrong-foot. 

  • To gulp an entire drink (bottle, glass, can, etc.) without pausing between swallows. 

  • To walk around in the course of work, especially when investigating. 

  • To dance in the style of Appalachian clogging. 

noun
  • A condition in which the arch of the foot makes contact with the ground. 

  • A person having the above condition. 

  • A sailor. 

How often have the words dare and flatfoot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )