ditch vs get around

ditch

verb
  • To discard or abandon. 

  • To dig ditches around. 

  • To dig ditches. 

  • To throw into a ditch. 

  • To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. 

  • To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. 

noun
  • A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. 

  • A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. 

get around

verb
  • To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of. 

  • To avoid or bypass an obstacle. 

  • To visit numerous different places. 

  • To transport oneself from place to place. 

  • To be sexually promiscuous. 

  • To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around. 

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