missing

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 478 words | Copyright

missing missing link a hypothetical fossil form intermediate between two living forms, especially between humans and apes, especially as sought by early evolutionary biologists. The term may also be applied pejoratively to a person held to resemble such a creature.
one of our aircraft is missing from the title of a film (1941), an alteration of the customary formula used by BBC news in the Second World War, ‘One of our aircraft failed to return’.

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