take one's medicine vs take the fall

take one's medicine

verb
  • To endure an unpleasant obligation, especially a punishment. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, medicine. 

take the fall

verb
  • To bear the blame or punishment for another person's failure or misdeed, either intentionally or not. 

  • To willingly lose a match, as in a fixed fight. 

How often have the words take one's medicine and take the fall occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )