foggy bottom

foggy bottom  {n.},  {slang}
An area in downtown Washington, D.C. where many offices of the Department of State are located; hence figuratively, the U.S. Department of State.
The press secretary gave us a lot of foggy bottom double-talk about the hostage crisis in the Near East.
Categories: noun slang
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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