make a meal of vs push forward

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. 

push forward

verb
  • To continue to act or do something, especially with a lot of effort 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, forward. 

  • To reschedule (an event) for an earlier date. 

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