play with vs take liberties with

play with

verb
  • To trick. 

  • To sexually stimulate a person or a person's erogenous zone. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: play with. 

  • To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance. 

take liberties with

How often have the words play with and take liberties with occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )