mark time vs shoot from the hip

mark time

verb
  • To march in place, while still in step with the beat. 

  • To stop making progress temporarily; to wait or stand still. 

shoot from the hip

verb
  • To discharge a firearm while it is held near the hip, without taking time to aim via the gunsights. 

  • To speak or act quickly based on first impressions, without carefully studying the background information, wider context, etc. 

How often have the words mark time and shoot from the hip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )