# Unexpected query\_string behaviour

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-query-string-behaviour/29494>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 17, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-query-string-behaviour/29494 "2015-09-17T16:20:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lukaszkorecki](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukaszkorecki/32/44878_2.png) [@lukaszkorecki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukaszkorecki)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-query-string-behaviour/29494/1 "2015-09-17T16:20:18Z")

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I'm issuing the following query:

```auto

{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {

      "query": "\"love it\""
    }
  }
}

```

Now - I'm expecting to only see results with phrase "love it" however the results seem to be all over the place:

"love this"  
"love you"

etc.

If that helps - the field I'm searching in has "eng\_analyzer" analyzer

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-query-string-behaviour/29494/2 "2017-07-05T23:49:42Z")

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