lay an egg vs rehearse

lay an egg

verb
  • To produce a failure or flop; to do something which is unsuccessful. 

  • To produce an egg. 

rehearse

verb
  • To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. 

  • To narrate; to relate; to tell. 

  • To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency. 

  • To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. 

  • To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater 

How often have the words lay an egg and rehearse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )