ditch vs leave someone holding the bag

ditch

verb
  • To discard or abandon. 

  • To dig ditches around. 

  • To dig ditches. 

  • To throw into a ditch. 

  • To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. 

  • To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. 

noun
  • A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. 

  • A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. 

leave someone holding the bag

verb
  • To abandon somebody, leaving him or her holding the responsibility or blame. 

  • To remove the value from an article or arrangement and leave somebody holding the empty (or valueless) container. 

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