hold one’s ground vs ride out

hold one’s ground

ride out

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

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

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

How often have the words hold one’s ground and ride out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )