take apart vs take to bits

take apart

verb
  • To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private. 

  • To dismantle something into its component pieces. 

  • To soundly defeat someone, or a team. 

  • to criticise someone 

take to bits

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