knock down vs lose the plot

knock down

verb
  • To demolish. 

  • To drink fast. 

  • To disassemble for shipment. 

  • To reduce the price of. 

  • To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls. 

  • To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table. 

  • At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel. 

lose the plot

verb
  • To cease to behave in a consistent and/or rational manner. 

  • To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot. 

How often have the words knock down and lose the plot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )