busy as a bee vs on the hop

busy as a bee

adj
  • Very active; working constantly. 

on the hop

prep
  • Playing truant from school. 

  • Spontaneous; unplanned. 

  • Unprepared; unready and unable to deal with something. 

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