make tick vs take off

make tick

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

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

take off

verb
  • To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission. 

  • To depart. 

  • To quantify. 

  • To remove. 

  • To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air. 

  • To imitate, often in a satirical manner. 

  • To become successful, to flourish. 

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