make it vs subsist

make it

verb
  • To succeed in surviving, in living through something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, it. 

  • To have sexual intercourse; do it. 

  • To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous. 

subsist

verb
  • To survive on a minimum of resources. 

  • To have ontological reality; to exist. 

  • To retain a certain state; to continue. 

How often have the words make it and subsist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )