down for the count vs sleeping

down for the count

adj

  • Unconscious or sound asleep. 

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

sleeping

adj

  • Asleep. 

  • Used for sleep; used to produce sleep. 

noun

  • The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. 

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