hothouse plant

“Just stay healthy. Back off. Just be smart,” Werth said, aware that pundits often have intimated that Strasburg is soft or even a hothouse plant.

“Not much farther, laddie.You’re doing very well for a hothouse plant.”

He imagines himself to be in love with the pastor's daughter in the village, who has been brought up like a hothouse plant.

A musical hothouse plant forced into premature bloom through vanity or the thirst for money may soon become stunted; none the less, however, does the fact remain, that no intellectual gift shows or develops itself earlier than that of music.

Distinction is a hothouse plant.