bite the dust vs take a dive

bite the dust

verb
  • To quit, or fail. 

  • My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day. 

  • To die. 

take a dive

verb
  • To lose or fail intentionally. 

  • To decline rapidly. 

  • To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. 

How often have the words bite the dust and take a dive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )