connect vs leave off

connect

noun
  • A useful friend or associate. 

  • A drug dealer. 

verb
  • To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network. 

  • To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip. 

  • To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. 

  • To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other. 

  • To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other. 

  • To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another. 

  • To arrive at an intended target; to land. 

  • To associate; to establish a relation between. 

leave off

verb
  • To omit. 

  • To desist; to cease. 

  • To stop with a view to resuming at a later point. 

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