off-the-books vs on the down-low

off-the-books

on the down-low

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  • (of a male) Publicly identifying as heterosexual but secretly having sex with other men. 

  • Secretly sleeping with someone other than one's partner. 

  • In secret. 

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