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 M. Leonora Eyles
I'm only just a hothouse plant, to be kept under glass.
From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking
And here is a foreign hothouse plant, too delicate for the gardens of the North; the leaves almost seem to keep their fragrance still.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
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 William Ralph Inge
