take it out on vs vex

take it out on

verb
  • To unleash one's anger on (a person or thing other than the one that caused it) 

vex

verb
  • To annoy, irritate. 

  • To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. 

  • To twist, to weave. 

  • To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. 

How often have the words take it out on and vex occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )