knuckle down vs plough through

knuckle down

verb
  • To get to work; to focus on a task. 

  • To submit; knuckle under. 

plough through

verb
  • To persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively. 

  • To forcefully make a passage to move through. 

How often have the words knuckle down and plough through occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )