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
Second, she was a hothouse plant, and would have been out of place in a garrison settlement.
From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John
Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.
From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various
"Do not make him think I am an invalid, or he will make a complete hothouse plant of me."
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
