foggy bottom

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   United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River

   BroaderDepartment of State

Questions about foggy bottom

What does foggy bottom mean?

foggy bottom means "United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River".

Is foggy bottom a common word?

foggy bottom is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.