get blood out of a stone vs hit the road

get blood out of a stone

verb
  • To do something difficult, frustrating, or pointless. 

hit the road

verb
  • To leave a place; to go away. 

  • To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle. 

How often have the words get blood out of a stone and hit the road occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )