in the swim vs on the ball

in the swim

prep
  • Actively participating in the flow of events; very involved. 

on the ball

prep
  • Alert, active, or attentive; on top of things. 

  • Playing as a midfielder. 

  • Being in control of the ball. 

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