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The phrase "a cottage industry" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a small-scale, home-based business, usually one that involves hand-crafted products. For example, "Many of the women in the small mountain village support their families by working in a cottage industry, crafting handmade textiles."
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It's almost become a cottage industry.
So a cottage industry has emerged.
Traditionally, it has been a cottage industry.
It's a cottage industry.
A cottage industry—architectural salvage was born.
"A cottage industry is what it is".
Al (Scarface) Capone was a cottage industry.
It really was a cottage industry.
Propaganda is now a cottage industry".
By contrast, Ms. Minter's production amounts to a cottage industry.
What once was a cottage industry is being institutionalised.
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