hold onto vs lay aside

hold onto

verb
  • To manage to keep something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto. 

lay aside

verb
  • To reserve (something, especially money) for future use; to save as a backup. 

  • To put (something) out of consideration. 

How often have the words hold onto and lay aside occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )