off guard vs on the hop

off guard

prep
  • Unexpectedly or by surprise. 

  • Not vigilant; unprepared; inattentive. 

on the hop

prep
  • Spontaneous; unplanned. 

  • Playing truant from school. 

  • Unprepared; unready and unable to deal with something. 

How often have the words off guard and on the hop occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )