hold it together vs ride out

hold it together

verb
  • Synonym of cope: to remain calm in adversity, to successfully manage one's difficulties. 

ride out

verb
  • To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather. 

  • To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat. 

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

How often have the words hold it together and ride out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )