Colloquial Usage
MIA is sometimes used in American English to describe difficulty finding something, particularly a person. "The employee is MIA." It is less often used in this context in UK English, where the equivalent phrase is "gone AWOL".
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Famous quotes related to colloquial usage:
“Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as ‘going over the Rim,’ and in colloquial usage the same phrase came to connote violent death.”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)