leave behind vs leave someone in the lurch

leave behind

verb
  • To abandon. 

  • To pass. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, behind. 

  • To leave (a trace of something). 

  • To not live longer than; to be survived by. 

  • To forget about. 

  • To outdo; to progress faster than (someone or something else). 

leave someone in the lurch

verb
  • To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation. 

How often have the words leave behind and leave someone in the lurch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )