down for the count vs on the skids

down for the count

adj
  • Decisively beaten; defeated; rendered irrelevant for the long term. 

  • Unconscious or sound asleep. 

on the skids

prep
  • In decline; going downhill; in trouble. 

How often have the words down for the count and on the skids occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )