Foggy Bottom

noun

1. a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

2. Informal.,  the U.S. Department of State, whose office building is located in this area.

Foggy Bottom

1. A nickname for the United States Department of State, whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C., known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp.

Example Sentences

Other rumblings of discontent have been reported, especially among younger officers inside Foggy Bottom who are more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

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Students, faculty, staff and alumni narrowed that down further to four finalists — “Ambassadors,” “Sentinels,” “Revolutionaries” and “Blue Fog,” after the Foggy Bottom neighborhood — in March.

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Unless attitudes have fundamentally changed at Foggy Bottom, I strongly suspect that any attempt to graft a fully effective bureau that commands interagency respect at the highest levels onto the existing structure will fail.

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More than 100 demonstrators — some with signs expressing views such as “Guns off my campus!” — had gathered at Kogan Plaza and marched to Wrighton’s house in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.

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Just like the Foggy Bottom neighbors portrayed in Ms. Dvorak’s column, we have all grown together to become almost family and have celebrated countless personal milestones with one another.

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