alert vs out of gas

alert

verb
  • To give warning to. 

noun
  • An alarm. 

  • A state of readiness for potential combat. 

  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory. 

adj
  • Attentive; awake; on guard. 

out of gas

prep
  • Tired; lacking energy or motivation. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, gas.: lacking fuel. 

How often have the words alert and out of gas occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )