throw away vs weed out

throw away

verb
  • To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash, to dispose of. 

  • To intentionally throw an incomplete pass. 

  • To waste, to squander. 

  • To give lightly, in an offhand manner. 

weed out

verb
  • to remove unwanted elements from a group 

How often have the words throw away and weed out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )