Robin Hood English

Meaning Robin Hood meaning

What does Robin Hood mean?

Robin Hood

— noun legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor

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Simple sentences

Robin Hood and his band of merry men live in Sherwood Forest.

And now I will tell how it came about that Robin Hood fell afoul of the law.

We are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood.

Is Robin Hood alive?

Movie subtitles

He shot some of Douglas Fairbanks Senior's big productions in the 1920s, including Robin Hood and The Thief of Bagdad.

He played the villainous Prince John in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood, photographed in Technicolor.

News and current affairs

Instead, there is the temptation to regard Osama bin Laden as a type of violent Robin Hood, whose actions, while impossible to condone officially, have helped them to recover a sense of Arab pride and dignity.

Some Robin Hood probably did brutalize the rich and, to cover his tracks, gave some of his loot to the poor.

A similar fate occurred to a Robin Hood tax, which, according to Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, should have forced banks and oil producers to provide resources for the poor.

Unfortunately, much as FTTs are the darling of leading liberal economic commentators and Robin Hood NGOs, they are an extremely misguided approach to achieving such worthy ends.