pay the bills vs pay the rent

pay the bills

verb
  • To provide enough income to sustain one's lifestyle. 

pay the rent

verb
  • To provide enough income to afford a place to live. 

  • To provide reparation or compensation to Indigenous Australians based on the claim that the country is theirs. 

How often have the words pay the bills and pay the rent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )