fade out vs take a dive

fade out

verb
  • To slowly disappear. 

  • To fade from a cut to black in a movie. 

  • To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence. 

noun
  • A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut. 

take a dive

verb
  • To decline rapidly. 

  • To lose or fail intentionally. 

  • To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. 

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