drive out vs hang out to dry

drive out

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, out. 

  • to push or to pull, i.e. to force, (someone or something) out of somewhere 

hang out to dry

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out, dry. 

  • To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent. 

How often have the words drive out and hang out to dry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )