go a long way vs take off

go a long way

verb
  • To achieve considerable success. 

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

take off

verb
  • To become successful, to flourish. 

  • To depart. 

  • To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission. 

  • To quantify. 

  • To remove. 

  • To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air. 

  • To imitate, often in a satirical manner. 

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