fall by the wayside vs lay an egg

fall by the wayside

verb
  • To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out, to suffer from neglect. 

lay an egg

verb
  • To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful. 

  • To produce an egg. 

How often have the words fall by the wayside and lay an egg occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )