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

I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances

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

Catholicism as we know it is Latin Christianity, and even in the Latin countries it is now a hothouse plant, dependent on a special education in Catholic schools and seminaries, with an index librorum prohibitorum.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

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)