touch base vs transmit

touch base

verb
  • To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate. 

  • To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand. 

transmit

verb
  • To communicate news or information. 

  • To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another. 

  • To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal. 

  • To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium. 

  • To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity. 

  • To send out a signal (as opposed to receive). 

How often have the words touch base and transmit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )