Is “duck and dive” only a British idiom?

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) :

“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”

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.

Searching for the phrase "duck and dive" in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) turns up zero references.

For the period (1990-2012) that COCA covers, "duck and dive" would appear to not be used in American English at all.

'Duck and Dive' is a common British Bingo game expression to indicate the number 25. Supposedly the 2 looks like a duck profile and 5 rhymes with 'dive'.

In today's world a duck and dive is used commonly a reference to a reinforced steel or concrete shelter on a work site where employees can run for protection in case of terrorist attacks.

It featured in a 2014 book published in the US about life in the Fifties. It's not clear from the extract whether "duck and dive" was an expression in use then, or used in the book because it was known in 2014.

The end of the fifties saw the greatest number of bomb shelters built in American backyards and "duck and dive" exercises carried out by American schoolchildren ...

— The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times edited by Joseph J. Darowski, pub McFarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2014