bite the big one vs shipwreck

bite the big one

verb
  • To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing. 

  • To be unpleasant or undesirable. 

  • To die. 

  • To perform poorly; to fail. 

shipwreck

verb
  • To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. 

noun
  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

  • A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 

  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

How often have the words bite the big one and shipwreck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )