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Fun fact that this is named after an early 20th century comedy tune that was about peoples wives sleeping with "the ice man", the guy who delivers ice to your house and is the only delivery guy of the day who was allowed inside (with your wife!)

It's not all that well documented but in the early 1900s there were a lot of vaudeville acts with this premise and phrasing and a variety of novelty songs, it was a popular expression then later used in the Eugene O'Neill play in the 1940s. Both names seem to have that common origin.

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I think it's really interesting how "the ice man" as a kind of sexually threatening stock character changed over the decades and is now a kind of murderer or operator