have a ball vs let oneself go

have a ball

verb
  • To enjoy oneself thoroughly; to have lots of fun or excitement. 

let oneself go

verb
  • To relax and enjoy oneself without restraint. 

  • To cease to care about one's appearance, allowing oneself to become unkempt, overweight, etc. 

How often have the words have a ball and let oneself go occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )