hothouse plant
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He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm only just a hothouse plant, to be kept under glass.
From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking
"Do not make him think I am an invalid, or he will make a complete hothouse plant of me."
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
But industry is not of the nature of a hothouse plant, to be forced by artificial means; and these grants of funds have but created monopolies, and consequently added to the general poverty.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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