come out vs step off

come out

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out. 

  • To express one's opinion openly. 

  • To make a debut in a new field. 

  • To come out of the closet. 

  • To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings. 

  • To end up or result. 

  • To be deducted from. 

  • To go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers. 

  • To be discovered, be revealed. 

  • To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away. 

  • To be published, be issued. 

step off

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, off. 

  • To avoid a conflict; to back down 

  • To measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers. 

How often have the words come out and step off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )