go ahead vs shy away

go ahead

verb
  • Used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal. 

  • To proceed with; to begin. 

  • To send communication over the radio. 

shy away

verb
  • to draw back in fear, cringe, back down 

How often have the words go ahead and shy away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )