get with the program vs tell

get with the program

verb
  • To become organized, current, or aware. 

  • To work productively toward the objective of a shared enterprise, especially after the objective or the environment has changed. 

  • To comply with the norms of a social group, especially a shared enterprise. 

tell

verb
  • To instruct or inform. 

  • To order; to direct, to say to someone. 

  • To narrate. 

  • To reveal. 

  • To convey by speech; to say. 

  • To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show 

  • To count, reckon, or enumerate. 

  • To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. 

  • To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. 

  • To discern, notice, identify or distinguish. 

  • To be revealed. 

  • To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer. 

noun
  • A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. 

  • A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements. 

  • A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold. 

How often have the words get with the program and tell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )