consume vs spend like water

consume

verb
  • To use up. 

  • To trade money for good or services as an individual. 

  • To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of. 

  • To eat. 

  • To destroy completely. 

  • To absorb information, especially through the mass media. 

spend like water

How often have the words consume and spend like water occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )