cast down vs take a licking

cast down

verb
  • To overthrow, to defeat or bring to ruin. 

  • To make (a person) discouraged or dejected. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cast, down. 

take a licking

verb
  • To suffer a defeat or a beating. 

How often have the words cast down and take a licking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )