on the ball vs wideawake

on the ball

prep
  • Alert, active, or attentive; on top of things. 

  • Playing as a midfielder. 

  • Being in control of the ball. 

wideawake

noun
  • A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt. 

  • A bird, the sooty tern. 

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