go a long way vs go great guns

go a long way

verb
  • To achieve considerable success. 

  • To be adequate or helpful for a significant amount of time. 

go great guns

verb
  • To perform particularly well; to be particularly successful. 

  • To move or proceed very quickly. 

How often have the words go a long way and go great guns occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )