brush off vs disregard

brush off

verb
  • To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brush, off. To remove something with a brush. 

disregard

verb
  • To ignore; pay no attention to. 

noun
  • The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard. 

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