on the hop vs unawares

on the hop

prep
  • Playing truant from school. 

  • Spontaneous; unplanned. 

  • Unprepared; unready and unable to deal with something. 

unawares

adv
  • Unexpectedly or by surprise. 

  • Without plan or forethought. 

  • Inadvertently. 

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