robbing from smb

I don't know where you read your opening sentence.

It should be 'Robin Hood is known for robbing the rich. . . '

You rob somebody or steal from them.

'Rob from' is incorrect.

Rover

You see that slogan all kinds of ways—steal from the rich, take, rob, and this "rob from", which you correctly sensed is somewhat unidiomatic, but it gets by on poetic license because "rob from" balances "give to", and it falls more trippingly from the tongue than "steal from" owing to the alliteration.

Hello, Muscovite:

I thought of something. I am NOT saying that I am correct.

I did some googling before posting, and I learned that the phrase is usually "Robin Hood is known for stealing from

the rich and giving to the poor."

Now here is my theory. Maybe I am the only one out of the world's 7,000,000,000 people to think this way:

James M That is," robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" just sounds more satisfying to me(and more emphatic).

Yes, Robin.......robbing from.......to

We may have to call upon the author to explain!

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Rover_KE:

I don't know where you read your opening sentence.

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It's from

from .....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

You can only find about 580 hits on Google for "rob from", "robbed from", or "robbing from".

This is exceedingly few. Few enough to say definitively that it is not very usual to use this combination.

CJ