lay it on the line vs lying

lay it on the line

lying

noun

  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. 

  • An act of telling a lie or falsehood. 

adj

  • Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious 

How often have the words lay it on the line and lying occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )