make the cut vs suffer

make the cut

verb
  • To succeed at something or meet a requirement; to be chosen out of a field of candidates or possibilities. 

suffer

verb
  • To undergo hardship. 

  • To become worse. 

  • To feel pain. 

  • To endure, undergo. 

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