How to do multiple "match" or "match_phrase" values in ElasticSearch

Question

So ElasticSearch has the terms query, which lets me supply multiple values and return a ist of documents where field X matches any of those values.

But I want to do the same thing with match_phrase - i.e. return documents where field X contains a case insensitive match for a term with spaces. I currently do it my using an or filter (see below). But that seems like a very verbose way of doing what I want, considering that terms does something similar already.

Current method

It seems ridiculous that a query searching a single field for one of three values should be 33 lines long.

{   "query": {     "filtered": {        "filter": {            "or": {               "filters": [                  {                      "query": {                          "match_phrase": {                             "myField1": "My first search phrase"                          }                      }                  },                  {                      "query": {                          "match_phrase": {                             "myField1": "My second search phrase"                          }                      }                  },                  {                      "query": {                          "match_phrase": {                             "myField1": "My third search phrase"                          }                      }                  }               ]            }        }     }   } } 

Answer 1

After a long night trying to figure this out myself I came up with this:

"query" : {         "bool": {             "should": [                {                    "match_phrase": {                       "myField1": "My first search phrase"                    }                },                {                    "match_phrase": {                       "myField1": "My second search phrase"                    }                }             ]         }     } 

Reference: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html

Answer 2

Query string would be helpful here something on these lines

   {       "query": {         "query_string": {           "default_field": "myField1",           "query": "\"My first search phrase\" OR \"My second search phrase\" OR \"My third search phrase\""         }       }     }