in the clear vs out of the woods

in the clear

prep
  • No longer in danger. 

  • Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing. 

  • Transmitted without encryption or scrambling. 

out of the woods

prep
  • Out of peril; likely to recover or prevail over trouble; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, the, woods. 

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