leak out vs let the cat out of the bag

leak out

verb
  • To be revealed (especially, of information intended to be kept secret). 

  • To spill or pour out, because of a leak. 

let the cat out of the bag

verb
  • To disclose a secret; to let a secret be known, often inadvertently. 

How often have the words leak out and let the cat out of the bag occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )