tick off vs try one's patience

tick off

verb
  • To annoy, aggravate. 

  • To sign with a tick. 

  • To reprimand. 

  • To list (create or recite a list). 

try one's patience

verb
  • To be difficult to deal with; annoy. 

How often have the words tick off and try one's patience occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )