catch flies vs send on a wild-goose chase

catch flies

verb
  • Of an actor: to distract the audience by moving or gesturing when the focus should be elsewhere. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, fly. 

  • To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period. 

send on a wild-goose chase

How often have the words catch flies and send on a wild-goose chase occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )