go to the dogs vs take a dive

go to the dogs

verb
  • To decline or deteriorate shockingly. 

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 go to the dogs and take a dive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )