come up with vs make tick

come up with

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with. 

  • To reach or overtake. 

  • To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. 

make tick

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick. 

  • To cause someone or something to operate the way it does. 

How often have the words come up with and make tick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )