discard vs leave someone in the lurch

discard

verb
  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

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 discard and leave someone in the lurch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )