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

Second, she was a hothouse plant, and would have been out of place in a garrison settlement.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John

The wisdom of the Mysteries is like a hothouse plant, which must be cultivated and fostered in seclusion.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances