destroy vs stop someone's clock

destroy

verb
  • To put down or euthanize. 

  • To sing a song poorly. 

  • To remove data. 

  • To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up. 

  • To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way. 

  • To damage beyond use or repair. 

  • To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin. 

  • To defeat soundly. 

  • To neutralize, undo a property or condition. 

stop someone's clock

verb
  • To kill someone. 

  • To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock. 

How often have the words destroy and stop someone's clock occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )