come first vs sweep the board

come first

verb
  • To win first place in a competition. 

  • To be the most important thing to consider. 

sweep the board

verb
  • To win all the prizes in a competition. 

  • To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats. 

  • To take all of the cards. 

How often have the words come first and sweep the board occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )