mess up vs tidy

mess up

verb
  • To damage; injure. 

  • To manhandle; beat up; rough up. 

  • To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. 

  • To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on. 

  • To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin. 

  • To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior. 

  • To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly. 

  • To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray. 

tidy

intj
  • Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine. 

adj
  • Generous, considerable. 

  • Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order. 

  • Arranged neatly and in order. 

  • Not messy; neat and controlled. 

  • Satisfactory; comfortable. 

verb
  • To make tidy; to neaten. 

noun
  • A tabletop container for pens and stationery. 

  • A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc. 

  • The wren. 

How often have the words mess up and tidy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )