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
And she became very frightened that, some day, she might make Andrew a hothouse plant, too.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
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 Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
Andy wilted at the end of his long speech like a hothouse plant in the frost.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.
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
