espy vs lick one's chops

espy

verb
  • To see (someone or something) without foreplanning or unexpectedly. 

  • To find out or observe (someone or something, especially if not easy to see) by spying or looking; to catch sight of; to see; to spot. 

lick one's chops

verb
  • To anticipate something eagerly. 

  • To use one's tongue to remove moistness from the sides of one's mouth, as when salivating or at the conclusion of a meal. 

  • To look forward avidly to eating something. 

How often have the words espy and lick one's chops occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )