hothouse flowers
Sheltered tender plants
Hothouse flowers are plants grown in a greenhouse—a controlled environment with regulated temperature and humidity.
The phrase commonly describes people who are delicate, sheltered, or unable to withstand ordinary hardships: These hothouse flowers have never had to work a real job.
The implication is that protection from natural conditions produces fragility.
- conservatoryGlass-enclosed plant room
- glasshouseStructure for growing plants
- roseStood up, or fragrant bloom
- greenhouseClimate-controlled plant enclosure
- indoor gardenPlants grown inside
glass ceiling · orchid · rare bloom · cultivation · sheltered · bubble wrap · fragile · pampered · special treatment · silver spoon · coddled · kid gloves · overprotected · horticulture · botanical · nurtured · dependent · sensitive
- off-seasonoff-peak travel, shoulder season, low season, off-peak, travel deals
hothouse flowershardy plants
wildflowers · weeds · wild plants · native plants · outdoor plants
hothouse flowerstough cookies
Resilient, unflappable people
rough diamonds · survivors · self-made men · salt of the earth · old hands
house, flower, hotter, hottest, hotly, hotness, houses, housed, housing