fly in the face of vs obey

fly in the face of

verb
  • To act in a manner highly contrary to; to counteract or contradict. 

obey

verb
  • To do as one is told. 

  • To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. 

How often have the words fly in the face of and obey occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )