"A bread and cheese marriage"

"A bread and cheese marriage" has anyone ever heard, read or seen this phrase before? It is listed in several oriental reference works on English and in a Russian textbook, none of which have a definition or say where it might have come from. Google books have nothing.

According to the OED, " bread and cheese, fig. for plain fare, needful food, victuals, living". Applied to a marriage, I would expect it to mean one in which the partners were getting by but without much if anything in the way of amenities or luxuries. SS