I have a question about a specific bit of dialogue; but rather than start a thread just for it, I’ll start this one for other questions about origins.
My question: We’re watching Twentieth Century (1934). ‘I close the iron door on you!’ is used. Is this a reference to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher?
We did not long look down at her, for fear and wonder filled our hearts. There was still a little color in her face and there seemed to be a smile on her lips. We closed the heavy iron door and returned to the rooms above, which were hardly less gloomy than the vault.
and
as if something of iron had indeed fallen heavily upon a stone floor, or as if an iron door had closed.
Or is the line referencing something else? ‘Closing the iron door’ on someone certainly sounds like shutting someone out (or in, in the case of the Poe story), so I’m guessing Poe was the origin.