take a licking vs take the count

take a licking

verb
  • To suffer a defeat or a beating. 

take the count

verb
  • To lose or fail. 

  • To be knocked out. 

  • To take to opportunity to rest briefly after being knocked down but before being counted out by the referee. 

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