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
Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
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 Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Treat yourself like a hothouse plant or you will not soon be rid of your cough.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett
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
