Garbage Collection with MovieClips

programming flash
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var a:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var dict:Dictionary = new Dictionary(true);
dict[a] = true;
a = null;

How come the movieclip never gets cleared, but if i change MovieClip to Object it gets cleared, im using this code to check if its cleared or not

sup();
function sup():void {
	new Wait(30, sup);
	for(var key:* in dict) {
		trace("data is still there");
		return;
	}
	trace("data was cleared");
}