take for a ride vs take to the cleaners

take for a ride

verb
  • To deceive someone. 

  • To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them. 

take to the cleaners

verb
  • To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc. (humorous way of saying older expression clean out) 

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