down the drain vs traveling

down the drain

prep

  • wasted or irretrievable. 

traveling

noun

  • A violation committed by progressing while holding the ball instead of dribbling it. 

  • The action of the verb travel. 

adj

  • That travels (with one). 

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