give up vs hang out to dry

give up

verb
  • To abandon (someone or something) 

  • To admit defeat, capitulate 

  • Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c. 

  • To relinquish (something) 

  • To execute a trade on behalf of another broker. 

  • To stop or quit (an activity, etc.) 

  • To surrender (someone or something) 

  • To lose hope concerning (someone or something) 

hang out to dry

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

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

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