open up vs sew

open up

verb
  • Synonym of cheat out (“to face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural”) 

  • To begin running, driving, travelling, etc., at maximum speed. 

  • To commence firing weapons. 

  • To rain. 

  • To open. 

  • To widen. 

  • To reveal oneself; to share personal information about oneself; to become communicative. 

sew

verb
  • Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. 

  • To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. 

  • Of a ship, to be grounded. 

  • To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. 

How often have the words open up and sew occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )