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

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 Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

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

And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various