I was interested in the phrase “duck and dive,” which is put in parentheses, in the following comment of a video ran by the Guardian with a caption, “Senator Marco Rubio's in-speech water break” - <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/16/marco-rubios-water-break-video>) :

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> “In a video that has turned viral, the Republican politician displays
>  a **'duck and dive'** lunge for his bottle while barely averting his
>  eyes from the lens”
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Oxford English Dictionary defines “duck and dive” as "British use: one’s ingenuity to deal with or evade a situation." 
But Google Ngram shows a constant currency of this phrase since cir 1840 and growing increase of use around after 1995.
Is this phrase still predominantly used in Britain, less in the U.S.?

P.S. 
I think the expression “Duck and dive" posture is very similar to Japanese expression, “屁っぴり腰-heppirigosi" meaning 'move / behave nervously / apprehensively with one's buttocks stuck out,' thus indecisiveness.

If somebody is familiar with Japanese language, please advise me if my interpretation is correct or not.