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

Despite her town breeding, this was no hothouse plant, this daughter of a horse-racing, whisky-drinking, card-playing gentry.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

The wisdom of the Mysteries is a hothouse plant, which is revealed to a few individuals ripe for it.

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

Catholicism as we know it is Latin Christianity, and even in the Latin countries it is now a hothouse plant, dependent on a special education in Catholic schools and seminaries, with an index librorum prohibitorum.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph