fill in vs step into the breach

fill in

verb
  • To substitute for somebody or something. 

  • To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information. 

  • To beat up; to physically assault. 

  • To fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed. 

  • To inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information. 

step into the breach

verb
  • To do a task that one is not ordinarily expected to do because there is no one else to do it. 

How often have the words fill in and step into the breach occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )