hit the road vs leave someone in the lurch

hit the road

verb
  • To leave a place; to go away. 

  • To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle. 

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