kick off vs make tick

kick off

verb
  • To shut down or turn off suddenly. 

  • To make the first kick in a game or part of a game. 

  • To suddenly become more active. 

  • To start; to launch. 

  • To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally. 

  • To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight. 

  • To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position. 

  • To have a fight or argument start. 

  • To die or quit permanently. 

make tick

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

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

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