put on vs take off

put on

verb
  • To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. 

  • To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). 

  • To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop. 

  • To perform for an audience. 

  • To organize a performance for an audience. 

  • To fool, kid, deceive. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on. 

  • To bet on. 

  • To play (a recording). 

take off

verb
  • To imitate, often in a satirical manner. 

  • To depart. 

  • To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission. 

  • To quantify. 

  • To remove. 

  • To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air. 

  • To become successful, to flourish. 

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