get at vs give someone a ring

get at

verb
  • To contact someone. 

  • To manage to gain access to. 

  • To understand or ascertain by investigation. 

  • To persuade by intimidation, to tamper with. 

  • To begin working on or dealing with. 

  • To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother. 

  • To mean, signify. 

give someone a ring

verb
  • To place a telephone call to someone. 

  • Become engaged. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, ring. 

How often have the words get at and give someone a ring occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )