go wrong vs take a licking

go wrong

verb
  • To fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome. 

  • To become wicked or depraved. 

  • To malfunction. 

  • Everything seems to be going wrong today. 

take a licking

verb
  • To suffer a defeat or a beating. 

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