resign vs take a dive

resign

verb
  • To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. 

  • To quit (a job or position). 

  • To give up; to relinquish ownership of. 

  • To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another. 

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 resign and take a dive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )