be in a flap vs make a meal of

be in a flap

make a meal of

verb
  • To spend more time and energy on some task than it warrants; to make something overly complicated; to make a big thing out of. 

  • To eat something as a meal. 

How often have the words be in a flap and make a meal of occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )