match up vs run it up a flagpole

match up

verb
  • To be similar or the same. 

  • To put together, or in a pair. 

  • To matchmake; to set up a romantic meeting between two people. 

run it up a flagpole

How often have the words match up and run it up a flagpole occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )