hothouse plant
Example Sentences
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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 Hocking, Silas K(itto)
Treat yourself like a hothouse plant or you will not soon be rid of your cough.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance
He imagines himself to be in love with the pastor's daughter in the village, who has been brought up like a hothouse plant.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
And here is a foreign hothouse plant, too delicate for the gardens of the North; the leaves almost seem to keep their fragrance still.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
