let down vs step up

let down

verb
  • To disappoint; to betray or fail somebody 

  • To reduce one's level of effort. 

  • To soften in tempering. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, down. 

  • To allow to descend. 

  • To lengthen by undoing and resewing a hem. 

step up

verb
  • To assume or take responsibility. 

  • To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps. 

How often have the words let down and step up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )