take to the cleaners vs worst

take to the cleaners

verb
  • To take a significant quantity of a person's money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc. (humorous way of saying older expression clean out) 

worst

verb
  • To outdo or defeat, especially in battle. 

noun
  • Something or someone that is the worst. 

adj
  • Most unfavorable. 

  • Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst. 

  • Most inferior; doing the least good. 

  • Most harmful or severe. 

How often have the words take to the cleaners and worst occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )