Foggy Bottom

informal A nickname for the US Department of State, so-called due to its location in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, DC. The current Secretary of State announced that he would be leaving Foggy Bottom at the end of the month following his resignation. Listen, I'm not about to have some lifelong bureaucrat from Foggy Bottom hold this process up! Hey, I was just down at Foggy Bottom, but I couldn't find the Deputy Secretary anywhere.