make hay vs nail it

make hay

verb
  • To take advantage of an opportunity. 

  • To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed. 

nail it

verb
  • Synonym of hit the nail on the head 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nail, it. 

How often have the words make hay and nail it occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )