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Foggy Bottom

Syllabification: (Fog·gy Bot·tom)
informal
Definition of Foggy Bottom
  • the US State Department:Foggy Bottom’s strategy for ensuring stability was to leave most of the power structure in place

Origin:

the name of a riverside area of Washington, DC, where the department is based

Foggy Bottom in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Foggy Bottom in the British & World English dictionary